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Christmas Short Works Collection 2014

Various

This year's Christmas collection of short stories and non-fiction, a play, poems, and bible readings features readings in English, Bulgarian, French, German, Italian and Swedish.

Cast list for The Christmas Dinner:
Mother Goose: Bev J Stevens
Grandfather: Ray Kasper
Grandmother: Ronelle Spiegel
Father: J Korth
Mother: Maria Kasper
Walter: Beth Thomas
Gertrude: Kimberly Kraus
Santa Claus: Phil Chenevert
Narrator: MaryAnn Spiegel

Edited by: MaryAnn Spiegel

Genre(s): Short Stories

Language: Multilingual

Keyword(s): poetry (1794), romance (1048), bible (476), Christmas (196), poems (185), WWI (158), First World War (35), customs (11), christmas truce (1)

Group: Christmas Short Works

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Christmas Eve At Topmast Tickle Norman Duncan Etext David Wales
 00:30:26 en
Play 02 Selected Verses from the Gospel According to Luke American Bible Union Etext Greg Giordano
 00:13:20 en
Play 03 Weihnachtsabend Karl May Etext DomBombadil
 00:03:03 de
Play 04 On Christmas Day in the Morning Grace S. Richmond Etext MaryAnn
 00:36:58 en
Play 05 On Christmas Day in the Evening Grace S. Richmond Etext MaryAnn
 01:01:20 en
Play 06 Asaph Sheafe's Christmas Susan Coolidge Etext Maria Kasper
 00:10:15 en
Play 07 What Christmas Is As We Grow Older Charles Dickens Etext Ed Humpal
 00:12:42 en
Play 08 Tomten Viktor Rydberg Etext J Korth
 00:04:22 sv
Play 09 The Open Christmas Letter, from Jus Suffragii, IWSA journal, Jan. 1915, signed by 100+ leading suffragettes and politically involved women of Manchester Various Etext Rob Marland
 00:04:37 en
Play 10 The Fire at Ross's Farm Henry Lawson Etext Son of the Exiles
 00:05:29 en
Play 11 Christmas Crackers Leonard Larkin Etext Ruth Golding
 00:17:00 en
Play 12 Selected Verses from the Gospel According to Matthew American Bible Union Etext Greg Giordano
 00:06:08 en
Play 13 Christmas Day Christina Rossetti Etext Alisson Veldhuis
 00:01:38 en
Play 14 Christ James Elroy Flecker Etext Algy Pug
 00:01:59 en
Play 15 A Christmas Fog John Strange Winter Etext Ruth Golding
 00:40:02 en
Play 16 Signs of Christmas Edwin Lees Etext Lucy Perry
 00:02:17 en
Play 17 'Le ciaramelle', from Canti di Castelvecchio Giovanni Pascoli Etext BeniaminoMassimo
 00:02:56 it
Play 18 Alice's Christmas Tree Edward Everett Hale Etext Maria Kasper
 00:30:29 en
Play 19 Christmas On Wheels Willis Boyd Allen Etext David Wales
 00:18:37 en
Play 20 A Soldier's Christmas Owen Oliver Etext Ruth Golding
 00:29:57 en
Play 21 Christmas Every Day William Dean Howells Etext Brian Hostick
Jessica Mells
 00:13:23 en
Play 22 Ceremonies for Christmas Robert Herrick Etext Lucy Perry
 00:01:07 en
Play 23 La Charlotte prie Notre-Dame le soir du Réveillon Jehan Rictus Etext Herman Roskams
 00:09:50 fr
Play 24 Ballade of Christmas Ghosts Andrew Lang Etext Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
 00:02:27 en
Play 25 A Christmas Carol G. K. Chesterton Etext Robert G. Smith
 00:01:13 en
Play 26 Christmas Eve - A Lull in Hate - Briton Cum Boche, from Bullets and Billets (1916) Bruce Bairnsfather Etext Maria Kasper
 00:14:55 en
Play 27 Koleden dar (Коледен дар) Ivan Vazov Etext Rapunzelina
 00:15:37 bg
Play 28 The Christmas Trail Charles Badger Clark Etext Ed Humpal
 00:02:54 en
Play 29 The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Etext Greg Giordano
 00:15:03 en
Play 30 Jest 'Fore Christmas Eugene Field Etext Alisson Veldhuis
 00:03:25 en
Play 31 The Christmas Dinner Shepherd Knapp Etext Group 00:47:37 en
Play 32 Del presepio ch'ei fece nel dì del Natale del Signor", Cap. 30 della Vita prima di S. Francesco d'Assisi Thomas of Celano Etext Enrica Giampieretti
 00:09:19 it
Play 33 Keeping Christmas Henry van Dyke Etext Olivereading
 00:05:06 en
Play 34 Twelve Poems, selected from Christmas in Poetry, Carols and Poems Various Etext MaryAnn
 00:21:04 en
Play 35 To an Old Fogey Owen Seaman Etext Ruth Golding
 00:03:02 en
Play 36 Christmas Omnipresent Leigh Hunt Etext Lucy Perry
 00:05:14 en
Play 37 Weihnachten Franz Grillparzer Etext Claudia Salto
 00:01:30 de
Play 38 Christmas Trees Robert Frost Etext Alisson Veldhuis
 00:03:40 en
Play 39 Neath Mistletoe Joseph Ashby-Sterry Etext Mary Kay
 00:01:06 en